Thanks for tuning in to this Agronomic Monday edition of RealAg Radio. Host Shaun Haney is joined by: Dr. Breanne Tidemann of Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada on managing herbicide resistant weeds; Bryant Luers with LG Seeds on corn hybrid diversification; Colin Rush with Bourgault on their equipment launches; Hear a clip from a recent Soil... Read More
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When does it make sense to re-tile cash crop fields? That's a thought process that Mount Brydges, Ont., farmer Larry Cowan shares with RealAgriculture's Bernard Tobin in this report, recorded earlier this summer. Cowan has been retiling an average of 150 acres each year for the past eight years. In this field, which was tiled... Read More
For the average Canadian, the long, lonely drive along the Trans-Canada Highway across southern Saskatchewan and Alberta is capital B boring. For those not from the Prairies, the seemingly endless, mostly flat landscape can seem underwhelming when you're used to rolling hills and mountains or cities and towns. But those who take the time to... Read More
Wheat is a unique crop, in that it is grown and consumed in every arable region of the world. But all that production and demand also means wheat is one of the most competitive commodities to grow and most challenging to gauge market direction. Darren Padget, past chair of U.S. Wheat Associates, says that all... Read More
There is no denying that access to a rough terrain vehicle (RTV) is a huge advantage when getting things done on the farm. Whether a producer is repairing fences, transporting mineral, or moving equipment between outbuildings, these workhorses have the potential to make life just that much easier. Farm work is exactly where the design... Read More
Thanks for tuning in to RealAg on the Weekend! Host Shaun Haney discusses the AgEx Conference and farm management, as well as the upcoming webinar co-hosted with Canadian Agri-Food Policy Institute on the recent U.S. Presidential Election impact to Canadian agriculture. Haney is then joined by Josh Linville with StoneX to discuss fertilizer pricing, and... Read More
Thanks for tuning in to this Friday edition of RealAg Radio. Host Shaun Haney is joined by Anne Wasko of the Gateway Livestock Exchange for the Beef Market Update. Haney is then joined by Lyndsey Smith and Kelvin Heppner, both of RealAgriculture, for the RealAg Issues Panel. The trio discusses: Ag minister Lawrence MacAulay's trip... Read More
Markets in the U.S. experienced a bounce this week from the downward trend that they were on due to packers running smaller fed-cattle kills in the last few weeks. That support under the cutout has been supporting the cash markets. The select spread has widened again which continues to confirm that demand for those high... Read More
There's no two-ways about it: 2025 is going to be a challenging season for farm profitability. It's anyone's guess right now what factors could pop up to push the commodity complex higher, but that doesn't mean it can't happen. John Newton, executive head of Terrain, spoke with RealAgriculture's Shaun Haney at the National Association of... Read More
Speed and flexibility is everything when a farmer is in the middle of harvest and needing to get grain trucks emptied as quickly as possible. The X-Tend on AGI's swing auger allows for a great level of flexibility by making it so that the grower doesn't need to move the truck back and forth on... Read More